Blog Posts by Matthew Perpetua

Radiohead
have shot down rumors that they were planning to perform at the Occupy
Wall Street protests in Manhattan this afternoon. According to a tweet from the Wall Street Journal, the band's spokesperson has told them that "we can officially say it's not happening."

According to the Occupy Wall Street site,
the band were set to perform at Liberty Plaza at 4 p.m. this afternoon.
As of yet it is unclear whether the band is backing out of actual
plans, or if this was only wishful thinking on the part of protesters
and fans shut out of the band's two sold-out performances at the Roseland Ballroom
earlier this week. It's possible the group had intended to play in
support of the loosely organized protest against the excesses of the
financial industry, but canceled out of concern that they would be held
liable if crowds got out of hand and people were injured.

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In an interview with USA Today, Mick Jagger says that he has become hooked on social media to the point that it distracts him from making music.

"I spend way too much time on the computer and not enough time playing the guitar," says the Rolling Stones
frontman. "There's an underlying problem of this screen life taking
over all of your life. It's easy to keep in touch with people, some of
whom I wish I'd never kept in touch with. But there they are on
Facebook! You can spend a lot of time on that when you should be doing
something else."

Photos: Mick Jagger Through the Years
Jagger is also on Twitter, but says that he has other people tweeting for him.

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The members of Bloc Party are insisting that they have not fired
frontman Kele Okereke, despite recently heading into the studio without
the singer. "Kele's been pretty busy doing solo stuff and it looks like
he's going to be doing that a bit longer," guitarist Russell Lissack told the NME.
"The other three of us wanted to meet up and make music. We were
talking about just doing an instrumental thing, but now we might get a
singer as well, to properly put some music out and play some shows."

Photos: Bloc Party at Siren Festival 2010
The
band further clarified that they have not changed their lineup in a
post to their website, which depicted the four members of the group as
cartoon characters with the caption "See you soon." Okereke, who had speculated that he had been quietly fired from the band in a recent interview with the NME, responded with a post on his blog in which he wrote, "A big part of me is laughing HARD at all of this but another part of me is all like WTF?"

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Death Row Records co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight Jr. will be the subject of a new documentary to be produced by and broadcast on Showtime. The movie, tentatively titled simply Suge Knight, will be directed by Training Day filmmaker
Antoine Fuqua and feature Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chuck
Phillips as a co-producer. The documentary will tell Knight's story from
his youth in Compton, California to his role in the East Coast/West
Coast rap wars of the Nineties and beyond.

Photos: Random Notes
According
to Showtime, this documentary about Knight will be the first in a
series of films made for the premium network by prestigious talent about
"iconic and controversial figures." Knight has given his approval to
the project and his new music company, Black Kapital, will provide the
movie's soundtrack.

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The Cure have announced plans to perform their first three albums - 1979's Three Imaginary Boys, 1980's Seventeen Seconds and 1981's Faith
- in their entirety at a series of concerts in London, Los Angeles and
New York City. The band previously played these albums in full at their
"Reflections" show at the Vivid Festival in Sydney earlier this year.
According to the band's website, these seven concerts will be the last times the records will be performed live.

Photos: Random Notes
The
dates for the Cure's shows, which are perfectly timed to celebrate the
band's nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, are as follows:

11/15 London, England - Royal Albert Hall
11/21 Los Angeles - Pantages Theatre
11/22 Los Angeles - Pantages Theatre
11/23 Los Angeles - Pantages Theatre
11/25 New York City - Beacon Theatre
11/26 New York City - Beacon Theatre
11/27 New York City - Beacon Theatre

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Lauryn Hill is being sued by a former stylist
who claims that the singer breached their contract on her 2007 European
tour by refusing to return items of clothing. According to a lawsuit
filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Hill had agreed to pay a
fixed weekly fee to Via Davia Vintage for an entire wardrobe of "high
fashion items" for four weeks, but the singer only returned about a
fourth of the collection after three months and held on to the most
expensive items.

Photos: Rage Against the Machine, Muse, Lauryn Hill and more from L.A. Rising

This is the second lawsuit that has been filed this year against Hill
regarding her behavior on her 2007 European tour. Jay Gore, a guitarist
on the tour, filed a suit in August alleging that she had refused to pay him thousands of dollars in wages and had regularly berated the band and crew on the road.

Photo by Anna Webber/FilmMagic

Mick Jagger may play a media mogul in Tabloid, a new film he is developing through his Jagged Films production company. The movie, which is being penned by A History of Violence
screenwriter Josh Olson based on an idea by Jagger, will tell the story
of a Rupert Murdoch-like mogul and a young journalist who is brought
into the inner circle of his immoral media empire.

Photos: Mick Jagger Through the Years

Tabloid would be Jagger's first starring role in a movie since he appeared in The Man from Elysian Fields with Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies back in 2001. The Rolling Stones frontman has starred in a handful of pictures over the course of his career, most notably as a former rocker in the 1970 movie Performance.

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Justin Timberlake has signed on to star in Spinning Gold,
a biopic based on the life of record producer and Casablancas Records
mogul Neil Bogart. Timberlake will also serve as a producer on the film,
which will be written and directed by Bogart's son Timothy Scott
Bogart.

Photos: Teen Idols on the Cover of Rolling Stone

The
movie will tell the rags-to-riches story of Bogart, who grew up poor in
Brooklyn but went on to launch the careers of Kiss, the Village People,
Donna Summer and Parliament in the Seventies. Bogart passed away from
cancer at the age of 39 in 1982.

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